Improved bedstead



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JAMES O. MERRITT, YOF WEST POINT, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 104,182, dated June 14, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Tu all 'whom 'it may concern:

` and dni-ably fastened together without screws or metal fastenings of any description, and a strong and perfect bedstcad formed, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

. In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 represents a sectional top or plan view'of a bedstead constructed according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional detail view, showing the side rail fastened to the post by the cross end rail.

Figure 3 is a a detailed section, Vshowing the side rail dovetailed to the post, without `the end-rail fast-A ening. l

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the posts, and

B, the side rails ofthe bedstead.

O, the end rail.

D, the supporting or spring slats for the mattress of the bed.

The end rails C are rehated, as seen in Iig. 2, and the spring slats D are dovetailed into them, as reprelhe side rails are dovetaled into the posts in recesses formed in the posts, asseen in fig. l at E, the

dovetail being seen in tig. 3. When the rail is thus dovetailed into the post, theposts are prevented from spreading in one direction (or. lengthwise) of the bedstead.

The posts at the head and foot of the bedstead are prevented from spreading bythe head and footboards, which are securely glued or fastened to those posts.

,When the end posts are attached the bedstead is set up in shape. The end-rails C areIl now crowded into the recesses E in the posts, their ends bearing against the inner'sides of the dovetail ends of the side rails, and back to the ends of those rails, as seen in fig. 1. This securely holds the side rails in piace in their dovetails. The spring slats D are now placed in the dovetailed recesses prepared for them, which keeps the end-rals in place, and the bedstead is complete.

It will thusbe'see-n that no iron or metallicfasten` ing is employed, the bedstead being put together in the most substantial and durable manner without them, thus reducing the expense while increasing the value of the article.

. Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Doweling or dovet-aiiing the side rails to the posts in recesses E, and holding those rails in place by the endrails, substantially as shown and described.

The above specicatiou of my invention signed by me this 23d day of April, 1870.

JAMES OJMERRITT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

